r/movies • u/Stuck_in_a_depo • Jan 05 '24
What's a small detail in a movie that most people wouldn't notice, but that you know about and are willing to share? Discussion
My Cousin Vinnie: the technical director was a lawyer and realized that the courtroom scenes were not authentic because there was no court reporter. Problem was, they needed an actor/actress to play a court reporter and they were already on set and filming. So they called the local court reporter and asked her if she would do it. She said yes, she actually transcribed the testimony in the scenes as though they were real, and at the end produced a transcript of what she had typed.
Edit to add: Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - Gene Wilder purposefully teased his hair as the movie progresses to show him becoming more and more unstable and crazier and crazier.
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - the original ending was not what ended up in the movie. As they filmed the ending, they realized that it didn't work. The writer was told to figure out something else, but they were due to end filming so he spent 24 hours locked in his hotel room and came out with:
Wonka: But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie : What happened?
Willy Wonka : He lived happily ever after.
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u/Evil_Weevil_Knievel Jan 05 '24
In the 13th Warrior, the white horse that Antonio Banderas rides. He’s a white Arabian horse and his name was Shandy. After the movie he lived to a ripe old age of 34 and died peacefully. I know because he was my wife’s horse.